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Joseph Joubert Quotes

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Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that’s a good thing born from a bad thing  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty  (Joseph Joubert Quotes) Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life  (Joseph Joubert Quotes)
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